Jonathan Swift skewered society, commerce, politics, and war in his greatest work, Gulliver’s Travels. The four-part tale opens with a shipwreck on the island of Lilliput, whose inhabitants are just six inches tall. One fierce controversy concerns which end of an egg to crack open. In part two, Gulliver’s ship ends up on Brobdingnag, an island of giants, where he is exhibited as a curiosity and partakes in cutting political tête-à-têtes with its king. In part three, Gulliver encounters Houyhnhnms, horses with the qualities of rational men. These he contrasts with the barbaric Yahoos, brutes in human shape. Finally, Gulliver returns from his travels with bitter insights into the nature of man and the barbarism that underlies so-called civilization. This Warbler Classics edition is based on the complete first edition of 1726, reproduces all of the original illustrations, and includes a biographical timeline of Swift’s enigmatic life.
Table of Content
Contents
Plates
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A Letter from Capt. Gulliver, to his Cousin Sympson
The Publisher to the Reader
Part I
A Voyage to Lilliput
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Part II
A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Part III
A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Part IV
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Biographical Timeline
About the author
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish author, political pamphleteer, poet, and Anglican cleric. He is widely considered to be the greatest prose satirist in the English language.
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